The document describes a mobile app called Dealz For Realz being developed by a team of students to help grocery shoppers save money. The app allows users to compare prices of specific grocery items across local stores. In interviews, users indicated they would be willing to pay for the app and suggested additional features. The team's app maps out the user experience and interface. Developing the app proved challenging as it relies on real-time price data from stores. The team acquired the idea after being asked to develop an app related to food and shopping and their presentation was well-received.

1. By
Hope, Lydia, and Najma

2. Who? Anybody who shops at grocery stores.
What? Saves grocery store shoppers money.
When? Anytime.
Where? Local Grocery Stores.
Why? There are people who need to save money so we inform
shoppers on what the prices are at multiple stores on the
same item.

3. People might not know how much money they are losing
because there are many grocery stores that have the same
item with different prices at each store. This makes people
lose money.

4. How can we inform shoppers on potential savings when
shopping?
Focus Question

5. From the research that we collected from the interviews, we
learned that even if users were to pay money to use our app,
they would still save money when grocery shopping. Some
interviewees were willing to pay four dollars and more for our
app.

6. My team, the DFR Team, is developing a mobile app to help
grocery shoppers who want to save money be informed on
which grocery stores will save them the most money on
specific items.

7. Based off of the interviews, we learned that the users
save a lot of money when using our app and have
suggested multiple things to add to the app to
improve it. Some suggestions were to only include
stores that will pay us to be in our app and to include
a floor plan of each store so that the users know
where to get items in the store.

8. Meet The Team
Name: Lydia Solomon
Age: 14
Hometown: Washington
Desired Career: Marine
Biologist
Name: Hope Sichel
Age: 14
Hometown: Washington
Desired Career: To be in the
Air Force
Name: Najma Egal
Age:14
Hometown: Washington
Desired Career: Lawyer

9. When we interviewed people most of them said that they
would like the chance to choose what stores that they want to
compare the prices of because having all of the stores would
make the app cramped and less useful because there are
many stores that people don’t go to. We made sure to include
this in our app to make it more organized and suitable for the
users. We also made sure to have a button that leads to the
homescreen on each screen of the app so that they can have
access to all parts of the app. You can access every part of the
app by clicking it’s button because each screen had it’s own
button. We made sure to do this so that the app would “flow”.
We also included a splash screen, so that we could advertise
our business while they are waiting for the app to open.

10. Our App Map

11. We learned that it is not very easy
to make an app. It is a very long
and frustrating process to go
through. Our app relies heavily on
data because we need to know the
prices for each item in a store and
we also need to be informed of
when it changes. We need this
information, so that we can keep
the users informed on the prices
by using a real time table showing
what the prices are of different
items at different stores. Every
time a price changes, we would
enter the new price and it would
automatically change on the user’s
table since it is in real time.

12. App Design Mock-up
We acquired this idea for the app when someone in our class
suggested that we make an app that involves food. That is
when we decided to make an app that compares the prices of
different items in a grocery store. We presented to people at
Seattle University who had the job to listen to pitches and
decide whether it is worthy to continure or not and they said
that we had a better presentation for them than most adults.
We got 1st place in our STEM Expo. Some direct competitors
that exist towards Dealz For Realz are Smoopa, RedLaser, and
PriceGrabber.